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Happy Presidents Day

Today is Presidents Day. In keeping with this community's tradition, I give you the annual Presidents Day Quiz, which can be found behind the cut below. Don't worry, there's no scoring system, just have fun with it. To check your answers, after you've done the poll, hit the view answers and see which answer kensmind selected. (He had a cheat sheet).



Poll #1957087 Presidents Day 2014

Who is the only President to have ever served as Speaker of the House of Representatives?

James Madison
0(0.0%)
James Monroe
0(0.0%)
James K. Polk
7(77.8%)
James Garfield
2(22.2%)

Which President would often go skinny-dipping in the Potomac River?

George Washington
1(11.1%)
John Adams
1(11.1%)
Thomas Jefferson
0(0.0%)
John Quincy Adams
7(77.8%)

Which President once grabbed a Canadian Prime Minister by the lapels and said "you pissed on my rug" because he was upset about a speech the Prime Minister had given?

Harry Truman
1(11.1%)
Lyndon Johnson
8(88.9%)
Richard Nixon
0(0.0%)
Bill Clinton
0(0.0%)

Which President once said "I may be President of the United States, but my personal life is nobody's damn business"?

Chester Alan Arthur
4(44.4%)
Warren Harding
4(44.4%)
Lyndon Johnson
0(0.0%)
Bill Clinton
1(11.1%)

All of these Presidents were wounded by gunshot except for one. Which one?

Andrew Jackson
0(0.0%)
Rutherford Hayes
3(33.3%)
Theodore Roosevelt
0(0.0%)
Gerald Ford
6(66.7%)

At at time when pro-segregation sentiment was strong in the southern United States, which President went to Birmingham, Alabama and gave a speech in favor of civil rights for African-Americans?

Theodore Roosevelt
0(0.0%)
Warren Harding
4(44.4%)
Herbert Hoover
3(33.3%)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2(22.2%)

Which President once filed a report on a UFO sighting with the International UFO Bureau?

Jimmy Carter
8(100.0%)
Ronald Reagan
0(0.0%)
Bill Clinton
0(0.0%)
George W. Bush
0(0.0%)

Two Presidents are buried at Arlington National Cemetary. One is John F. Kennedy. Who is the other one?

Ulysses S. Grant
0(0.0%)
James Garfield
1(11.1%)
William Howard Taft
4(44.4%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
4(44.4%)

Which President once wrote a letter threating to punch a newspaper critic in the nose after the critic had written a review that was critical of a concert that the President's daughter had given?

Woodrow Wilson
1(11.1%)
Harry Truman
5(55.6%)
Richard Nixon
2(22.2%)
George W. Bush
1(11.1%)

In retirement this President became a chronic alcoholic and died from cirrhosis of the liver. Who was he?

John Tyler
0(0.0%)
Millard Fillmore
0(0.0%)
Franklin Pierce
9(100.0%)
Ulysses Grant
0(0.0%)



Happy Presidents Day!